900 May Be 900 Too Many

From Yahoo News:
"Georgia to send 900 troops to Afghanistan"

If you noticed that I put this entry in the Russia/CIS and Europe sections. I did that because Georgia left the CIS due to it's war with Russia last year. I do not think it is very wise for Georgia to send so many troops to Afghanistan when it has so many issues back home. Why send so many soldiers out of your country when you could be having another war (with Russia) any day? I guess the only reason to do that is to gain favor with the US and EU (especially the EU since they as a whole aren't sending that many troops to Afghanistan.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091207/ap_on_re_eu/eu_georgia_us_afghanistan